IEEE IT Professonal

Submission Deadline: 1 July 2010

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There is a new imperative for CIOs and IT professionals, Green IT, reflecting both environmental and economic concerns. Green IT refers to the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, and using computers, servers, monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems efficiently and effectively with minimal impact on the environment. Green IT is also about using IT for environmental sustainability — besides IT itself being green, it can support, assist, and leverage other environmental initiatives and help in creating green awareness. 

Green IT is, and will continue to be, a hot topic due to increasing awareness of the harmful effects of green gas emissions, new stringent environmental legislation, the rising concern on electronic waste disposal practices that damage our environment, and corporate-image concerns that are pushing businesses and individuals to go green. We can make a difference by greening IT — it will not only benefit our planet, it will benefit us personally and professionally, too. 

Scope

The January/February 2011 issue of IT Professional will focus on green IT. Papers are solicited for that issue covering a range of topics, including:

• The key environmental impacts arising from IT and the major environmental IT issues that we must address
• Ways to make their IT infrastructure, products, services, operations, applications, and practices environmentally sound
• Server and application virtualization 
• Green computing and green data centers
• Environmentally friendly IT asset disposal
• Assessment of the effectiveness of green IT initiatives and tracking carbon footprint of IT assets 
• Environmentally-friendly total life-cycle management of IT
• Using IT to support, assist and leverage other environmental initiatives through modeling, simulation and decision support tools 
• Innovative ways of creating green awareness using IT
• Green standards and green standardization; green regulations 
• Governments' roles in fostering and enforcing green IT initiatives
• Users and IT industry's attitude towards green IT
• Green strategies, policies and procedures 
• Benefits of, and barriers to, adopting greener IT practices 

We welcome research summaries, articles on green best practices, strategies and policies, case studies, experience reports and essays on current state of practice relating to Green IT. 

Questions?

For more information, contact the Guest Editors:

·        San Murugesan, University of Western Sydney & BRITE Professional Services, Australia

·        Phillip A. Laplante, Penn State University, USA

 Submission Information

Feature articles should be no longer than 4,200 words and no more than 20 references (with tables and figures counting as 300 words). Illustrations are welcome.

 Author guidelines: www.computer.org/itpro/author.htm

 Submission details: itpro-ma@computer.org

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